Tunir Biswas
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Poetry & the Big Gloom
For acclaimed author and poet Jerry Pinto, one of the key experiences that shaped his literary life was the discourses he undertook in his twenties in meetings of like-minded bards and thinkers known as the Poetry Circle in Mumbai. “This was many years ago. But when Menka Shivdasani, R Raj Rao, Akil Contractor and Nitin…
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Exploring cells to the T: An interview with Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee
On one of the many visits of eminent cancer physician and celebrated author Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee to India, he was informed of a case of a little boy battling cancer. When he went to the hospital to meet the child, the latter confided in him that his father worked as a security guard at a…
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Assassins of discourse
Remember, remember the fifth of September’ might have been the opening line to that iconic Guy Fawkes rhyme (it starts as ‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’) if it was based on events that unfolded in Bengaluru in the new millennium. Unlike the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, a failed assassination attempt of British King James…
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Why India’s spacetech sector is outpacing the rest of deeptech
India’s deeptech ecosystem has made significant strides over the past few years. After building strong software capabilities and investing in research and development, startups are now moving beyond prototypes to pilot production, hardware deployment, and institutional procurement. The Zinnov-Nasscom Startup Report 2025 highlights that many startups have successfully crossed the technical validation stage. The bigger…
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When data is scarce: How India is building military AI differently
In the global race to build military AI, data has become the most valuable weapon. For superiority in modern warfare is increasingly measured in algorithms, not just in missiles or manpower. “Whoever owns the data has an edge in AI right now,” says Neeta Trivedi, Co-founder and CEO of defencetech startup Inferigence Quotient and a…
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Intelligent fields: How AI is powering the future of Indian agriculture
What if the future of farming isn’t in the soil at all, but in code? Today, algorithms, AI models, and satellite imaging are shaping agricultural decisions long before a seed touches the ground, redefining how crops are planned, grown and harvested. That shift is already visible on the ground. Brahmjyot Singh Khalsi of Purple Farms…
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GaNgs of deeptech: Why this startup’s GaN bet may be key to India’s semiconductor boom
Technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that it’s leaving Moore’s Law behind. And the rapid growth of critical technologies, including telecommunications, electric mobility, and energy-efficient lighting, requires high-power, high-frequency electronic systems. A promising solution is gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors, which can tolerate higher power density and can operate at higher voltages. Around a decade…
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From HAL Tejas to intelligent UAVs: Inferigence Quotient is building the future of autonomous drones
After 28 years at DRDO and 1.5 years at TATA Advanced Systems, Neeta Trivedi decided to chart her own course in the aerospace industry. Trivedi had decades of experience in the sector; her achievements included developing the end-to-end cockpit display system of the multirole light fighter aircraft HAL Tejas. However, she noticed crucial gaps in…
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This Amitabh Bachchan-led gaming studio is building India’s first AAA game inspired by the Ramayana
When Nouredine Abboud, a former Ubisoft producer and now CEO of Novaquark, was brainstorming potential ideas for a new game, Nicolas Granatino, President of Novaquark and Founder of Paris-based accelerator StemAI.vc, suggested looking Eastward. With the recent success of the Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong, selling 20 million units in its first month alone, Eastern stories are…
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Meet LiteFold, a biotech startup using proprietary AI to speed up drug discovery
Anindyadeep Sannigrahi is a machine learning (ML) engineer by training, but biology had long held his interest. So, when he joined the AI residency programme at the Bengaluru-based Lossfunk (a research lab which works on several AI problems at the forefront of academia) in 2025, he quickly turned his attention to protein folding — a biological process…
